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View Poll Results: What was (or is presently) your highschool GPA?
4.00 33 24.26%
3.51 - 3.99 51 37.50%
3.01 - 3.50 25 18.38%
2.01 - 3.00 19 13.97%
1.01 - 2.00 0 0%
Below 1.00 8 5.88%
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Old 02-12-2008, 10:08 PM   #141
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Default Re: GPA's accuracy reflecting intelligence.

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5/ Unfalsifiable claims are not allowed. What this means is basically: No matter how strongly you choose to believe something, if that something cannot be proven or disproven, you cannot use it as evidence in discussions. As a practical rule it means that threads about religion are on very shaky ground. You can discuss religions and religious concepts to your heart's content provided you have proper evidence to back them up, but faith-based claims simply lead to flamewars, and juvenile "yes it is, no it isn't" back-and-forths that make everyone's day worse.

6/ Proper spelling and punctuation are mandatory. Even moreso than in the rest of the forum, posts in CT need to contain full and proper english words. Text is a medium of communication, and when u tak leik ths it breaks down the ability of people to understand you. Yes you know what you mean, yes we can figure out what you mean, but every time a post has to be made asking for a translation or interpretation of what you said, communication has broken down. Use spellcheck, use those language skills you should have been learning all these years in school.
Please fill all of these requirements in your next post.

You have absolutely no grounds for your argument. And, like I (and many others) have said, here in CT you need adequate support for your claims.
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Old 02-12-2008, 10:17 PM   #142
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Default Re: GPA's accuracy reflecting intelligence.

We established a very long time ago that GPA is not necessarily indicative of intelligence. When you come in here and start claiming that it isn't, after the discussion had advanced far beyond that point, it's obvious you haven't read the thread, and don't have any sort of necessary skill for proper CT posting. With your ad hominem attacks, complete and utter disregard for people's posts, and completely biased and unsupported opinions, I recommend you take a break from posting and start looking over the discussions themselves, to see for yourself what is and isn't acceptable here.

I may be of a highly scientific mind, but that doesn't mean I go around claiming engineering is harder than liberal arts without having had any experience or done any research related to the subject.
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Old 02-13-2008, 12:15 AM   #143
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Please fill all of these requirements in your next post.

You have absolutely no grounds for your argument. And, like I (and many others) have said, here in CT you need adequate support for your claims.
man you are dumb, "We established a very long time ago that GPA is not necessarily indicative of intelligence" enough said
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Old 02-13-2008, 01:26 AM   #144
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Okay, you're out. Come back in at least a week, when you've learned how to engage in civil discourse.
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Old 02-13-2008, 01:51 AM   #145
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GPA only indicates effort. I know total idiots who manage a 3.0 GPA or better. But other tests, like the SAT, have been shown to measure intelligence well, despite the fact that they were not used to measure it.

At one point, when I was slacking off, I had like a 1.0 GPA (I raised it almost instantly to 3.65 in two weeks), and I'm brilliant. I know a guy who drinks, smokes, doesn't work hard, slacks off, and is a bully, yet maintains a 3.0 GPA. And he was 16 (He's now 17, and hasn't changed). See my point? At school kids would often, no, always, measure intelligence by GPA. The kids who had 4.0s were considered geniuses (They weren't. They were smart but not REAL smart). I was like the only exception, but I won't go into why, that's irrelevant. But GPA is not indicative of intelligence. It never will be. It can be used as a rough estimate, but that's about it, and even then it's not always accurate.



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Old 02-13-2008, 03:40 AM   #146
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Default Re: GPA's accuracy reflecting intelligence.

You need to take into consideration the school and the student. Theres no way you can look at a students GPA and tell whether or not he/she is intelligent or not. Students take a variety of courses whether it be difficult or easy. Someone can be taking easy classes such as art and p.e. while another take algebra and chemistry. Algebra and hemistry of course take more time and is much more difficult than art and p.e. so you cant really compare individuals transcripts because of class issue. Another issue has to be the school's curriculum. They differ in each city, state, and country so one schools curriculum may be easier than that of another.
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Old 02-16-2008, 11:16 AM   #147
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I believe the GPA is rather inaccurate. In order for this to work every person would have to be identical. Because of circumstances in and out of some people's control this test is invalid.
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Old 02-16-2008, 04:23 PM   #148
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Default Re: GPA's accuracy reflecting intelligence.

GPA is a combination of the student's ability to learn and of the student's effort. A smart, but lazy student can easily B a class, while an average but well-moraled student will recieve an ace in the hole.

As for IQ, it only shows your capacity to know. There's a certain point in life where your instincts are replaced by what you know, and at that point, IQ becomes useless.

CONCLUSION: Since so much of a student's grade is based simply on finals, and to do good on finals, it's not about intelligence, only attitude and effort, GPA is not an accurate display of a student's intelligence. However, we should continue using it since it separates the merely smart from the truly devoted.
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Old 02-16-2008, 06:58 PM   #149
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Default Re: GPA's accuracy reflecting intelligence.

Okay, since the little brou-haha with t0ni, we've had nothing but posts which have ignored the evolution of the discussion, and instead refer back only to the OP, and basically restate again and again the basic premise that we pretty much all agreed to right off the bat. So I'm going to close this up.
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